Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi Pati Sushmita
Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi Pati Sushmita We live in cities whose borders have always been subject to expansion. This book looks at the spatial…
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Properties of Rent: Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi Pati Sushmita
We live in cities whose borders have always been subject to expansion. This book looks at the spatial transformation of villages brought into the Delhi's urban fray in the 1950s. What does such transformation of rural spaces mean for cities and vice-versa?
A study of two villages - Munirka and Shahpur Jat - both in the heart of bustling urban economies of Delhi, reveal that it is 'rent' that could define this suburbanisation. As these villages transform physically; their residents, an agrarian-pastoralist community - the Jats - also transform into dabblers in real estate. 'Bhaichara', once a form of land ownership in colonial times, transforms into an affective claim of belonging, and managing urban property in the face of a steady onslaught from the 'city'.
Properties of Rent is a study of how vernacular form of capitalism and its various affects shape up in opposition to both state,